BL6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,019 of the district's 1,433 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.59184, -2.54084, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BL6

Companies House lists 5,370 companies with a registered office in BL6; 628 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for BL6

• North West
• Bolton
• Horwich
• Blackrod
• Chew Moor
• Bottom o' th' Moor
• Chorley
• Lancashire
• Wallsuches
• Adlington
• Montcliffe
• Westhoughton
• Rivington
• Little Scotland

Roads filed under BL6

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbott Street
• Abernethy Street
• Abraham Street
• Academy Way
• Acresdale
• Acresfield Close
• Ainscow Avenue
• Ainse Road
• Ainsworth Avenue
• Albert Street
• Alderbank
• Alexandra Road
• Anderton Lane
• Angelbank
• Ansdell Road
• Ardley Road
• Arena Approach
• Arkwright Street
• Armstrong Street
• Ashburn Close
• Ashcott Close
• Ash Grove
• Ashness Close
• Ashridge Close
• Aspinall Close
• Aspinall Way
• Austins Lane
• Avebury Close
• Avonhead Close
• Avro Close
• Axeholme Court
• Back Canada Street
• Back Chapel Street
• Back Chorley New Road East
• Back Crown Street
• Back Duncan Street
• Back Emmett Street
• Back George Street
• Back Mirey Lane
• Back Nelson Street
• Back Owen's Row
• Back Rawlinson Street
• Back Wood Street
• Back Wright Street
• Bakers Lane
• Balmoral Close
• Balmoral Drive
• Bank Meadow
• Barford Grove
• Barlow Street
• Barn Acre
• Barncroft Drive
• Bateman Street
• Beatrice Street
• Beaumont Avenue
• Beaumont Road
• Beech Avenue
• Belgrave Crescent
• Belmont Road
• Bensey Rise

Check an address in BL6

Check an address in BL6

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BL6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BL6

What does a BL6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BL6 district of the BL (Bolton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Horwich. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,019 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest BL6

• BL55.1 km
• BL16.3 km
• WN26.8 km
• WN17.2 km
• BL37.8 km
• BL117.9 km
• M468.0 km
• WN68.8 km
• BL79.0 km
• BL789.4 km
• BL29.6 km
• PR69.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids